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Guest Editors

S P E C T R U M . D I A B E T E S J O U R N A L S . O R G L aurie Quinn, PhD, RN, FAAN, FAHA, CDE, is a clinical professor, and Cynthia Fritschi, PhD, RN, CDE, is an assistant professor of nursing at the University of Illinois College of Nursing in Chicago. Dr. Quinn has maintained an ongoing research program focusing on improving the health of people with diabetes and reducing the burden of di...

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Treatment of Myelodysplastic Syndromes Selection of the treatment plan for a patient with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) depends upon the prognosis for the disease course. Currently, the best approach for assessing prognosis is to utilize the International Prognostic Scoring System (IPSS). The IPSS incorporates the results from three types of analyses—the levels of blood counts, the percent of...

Guest editors preface

which are now called Bernstein polynomials, in order to present a short proof of the Weierstrass Approximation Theorem. The subsequent history is well documented, see, e.g., [29] for the period up to 1955, the monograph [18] published in 1953, and the survey article [9] which appeared on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the above paper by Bernstein. Since the latter publication prov...

Special Issue Guest Editors

Britton Chance is amazing; he has won prizes ranging from an Olympic Gold Medal to the National Medal of Science. In preparation for writing this piece we have been sitting at my desk pouring over the incredible work Brit has done during his scientific career. We have known Brit for over a decade, and have collaborated with him on many exciting projects related to optical imaging and spectrosco...